Cemeteries and memorials to visit Ile-De-France

In this cemetery are buried soldiers who died during the two world wars: 1,541 during the first, 24 during the second, and a wall of the disappeared that perpetuates the memory of 974 people who were never found. It is the only one dedicated to the American dead of these conflicts. Unlike other military cemeteries, this one was installed not near a battlefield but because of the proximity of the hospitals, where the soldiers were treated. It was inaugurated in 1919 by the President of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, American General John-Joseph Pershing and French Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The chapel built in 1932 was enlarged in 1952. During opening hours, a person is always available at the reception desk to welcome and inform visitors who wish to reflect, or simply walk around this three-hectare memorial site.

Close to the Sacré-Coeur, at the Montmartre summit, this modest cemetery is in the calm, far from the crowds of tourists travelling that of Père-Lachaise or Montparnasse. By lifting the head, above family chapels and crosses on the tombs, the dome of the basilica is explored. Its narrow alleys and tombstones decorated in a Parisian style have nothing to do with the most famous tombs of Paris. Confidential and preserved, it is a place of contemplation more than walking. However, its position close to the Sacré-Coeur attracts some curious, while the most passionate French culture can discover at random their between of the tombs of the painter Maurice Utrillo, Marcel Aymé or Marcel Meat.